iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The urge to separate ideas from their context, or to prioritize structure and form over meaning, is completely indulged by chatbots. It's anti-knowledge and anti-understanding. It erases people and impact. And it ends up being an excuse for or justifying some of the most noxious ideologies.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fantastic interview, packed with useful info. Hard to choose one quote, but: "This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence and negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." Great to see Dr. Gebru debunking nonsense from previous guests.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Me horrified. Me have unique voice. And now me sound like not me. Now me sound like Matt on LinkedIn." 💀

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"If you set up a machine such that any question you put in will lead to an answer coming back out…you are setting up a view of the world and of knowledge that says, 'All questions have a discrete, knowable, objective answer,' and that's just not true and has no place in education." ❤️😍💯

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've found recently that repeating "Efficiency isn't one of my values" as a kind of affirmation has been really freeing.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes! More resources for our school's "AI Task Force"!

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 03/10/2026

> For 26-year-old [...] Roz, the politics of language do not begin with those who bring the dialect to the stage or the page; they begin in classrooms. > “Is it not a linguistic crime to tell a child that the way they learned to say ‘I love you’ is grammatically wrong?”

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The betrayals will continue until trust improves."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

it rhymes i think with the way some people love metrics and "hard numbers" and get very uncomfortable with the fact that quantitative measurements are actually a subset of qualitative measurements

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

However, the racist and sexist public consciousness says that whatever these men say MUST be true. No one asks them for evidence, and WE, those who don't say that the Cookie Monster is coming, are the ones who are asked to justify ourselves. You can feel free to read my extensive peer reviewed...

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Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My article about that exact subject came out today! What a weird time to be alive. « ceci n’est pas de l’art » in @revueababord.bsky.social

Photograph of my article in À bâbord ! Magazine « Ceci n’est pas de l’art »

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 30/09/2026

Screenshot of a tweet by Henry Ford from 1908. It says: "i am a horse, and so r u"

(parody of a tweet by Sam Altman)

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One time my family went to a pancake place. The fruit was half rotten, and a roach even started crawling up my baby sister's high chair. As my mom was walking out the door in disgust, the apologetic wait staff offered her a coupon for free food next visit, and she said, "No, we're not coming back."

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't use AI for things it's not good at, and definitely don't assume AI is good at everything. And the one thing AI really cannot do is replace human beings. AI is a tool that human beings can use, but like any tool, it takes experience to use effectively.

BBCNews:

McDonald's removes Al drive-throughs after order errors

Let's be clear here. If you cannot
get the right burger from an Al
customer service bot, it is not an
appropriate tool for education,
tutoring, or any other high-stakes
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We saw this very clearly in CS rollout in K12. "You don't need to know CS to teach CS!" all over the place. I heard "Lead learner means the teacher doesn't know the answer."

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And I suppose I ought to write my own essay: AP is at the core of Alpha’s claims about academic legitimacy in high school. Even if the stats are real, they’re worse than meaningless.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The screenshot chatbot interaction is 🤯 I don't even know how you'd trust that anything it said is reflective of reality. Obviously it's a bad idea to have software impersonate you, but why still talk to it like it understands what it's doing?

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These are terrifying. I can't imagine putting this uncanny valley nightmare fuel in front of kids.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 27/09/2026

When the AI bubble bursts, the "AI experts" will just move on to their next grift. Students, teachers, parents will be left to clean up the AI mess was forced into the education system. If we push back now, we won't have to clean up as much wreckage.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When I studied CS, the military was funding tech that would allow a camera to track someone as they walked across a room, "so university lecturers could walk around while you recorded the lecture."

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026

There is no ethical use of AI.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

harvardmagazine.com

I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 21/09/2026

That this would be wildly disruptive actually makes it better imo. These companies need to have democratic oversight and consequences imposed and they need to FEEL it. A fine is a budget rounding error to them right now.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the frustrating things about "AI" commonly being used to refer to a nebulous class of tech is that it orients "AI in education" discussions around adoption and use of "AI" rather than studying it as something that impacts how we relate to computing tech.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 17/09/2026

There’s a reason why arguments that people on the left need to uncritically swallow the bill of goods being sold by the AI industry come off as offensive to people who were already aware of all this.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Human is the loop" is a distraction from what the "loop" actually is. "Use of AI" is way too vague a term for seeing this serious. What exactly is being automated? How does that automation work? What guarantees do we have for transparency and accountability in the decision making processes?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Actual video of a bridge going rogue and deciding to defy its engineering. With their super human ability to suspend objects in the air, these creations can cause untold destruction when they turn against their creators in this way, and they are EVERYWHERE.

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When resonance frequency matches wat happens (bridge frequency =air frequency)=Crash

YouTube video by 10,569,446 Views

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Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wait is finally over! Ghosties get involved @pbs.org Also airing tonight on your local PBS station 7PM PT, 10PM ET! "The one documentary with the power to burst the AI bubble" - The Wrap www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

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Ghost in the Machine | What is Artificial Intelligence? | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS Documentaries

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2. Alarmibragging claims from companies should be scrutinized for such things as: What exactly was the training data & other input to the systems? What was system output? >>

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hear me out: Down to the Countryside, but for politicians and AI/crypto tech bros. Like, anyone who argues against a social safety net.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Imagine if the media took the words of climate scientists as seriously as it does that rando from Anthropic… Air pollution and climate change from fossil fuel use are literally killing millions of people every year, but sure, let’s focus on the idiocy that “AI is going to kill everyone in 10”.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A plane and a boulder are equally flightworthy outside the presence of gravity.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's the next day, and I'm still thinking about how insidious the "you are super special and strong and elite because we are abusing you" messaging is. They're taking kids at a really vulnerable time and tying their self-esteem and group identity/belonging to accepting mistreatment from authority.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coincidentally, I don't think we should be bringing chainsaws into the classroom, either.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's really hard to teach kids critical thought around tech when you have a multi-trillion dollar industry shoving magical thinking at them all the time. Had a long conversation with a high school student today.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm assuming any sort of labor organizing is also an "automatic fail" in this "how to be exploited" challenge.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reading the quotes from these children is heartbreaking. They are treated like products to be "optimized", not humans whose growth should be supported. They've been convinced that their value lies in they way they endure contrived hardship or collect points in arbitrary tests. Kids deserve better.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If middle school students can figure this one out, the NYT has no excuse.

Clip of a middle school worksheet in which the student demonstrates understanding that techno-naturalization is a myth.

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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And two dolls max per kid this Christmas. (But yeah, we should actually drive less, for real. Stopped clock and all that.)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

But if your reaction is "it's just a tool" or "we just need to own the means of computation", I encourage you to consider the institutions and power around said tool and said computation.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*whispers in analysis of political economy and science and technology studies* Frankly, no. If your technology relies on massive capital consolidation to function at all, then the problem is the technology, not simply who wields it.

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